Our Mission
We believe it is vital everyone has the opportunity to benefit from innovative, intuitive, ethical and affordable software.
Whether it’s a website, mobile app or in-house application we believe they all should include digital accessibility so everyone can access and interact with it; regardless of language, ability, or device they are using.
We believe everyone should have the right tools to enable them to be the best they can be and succeed in whatever they are trying to achieve.
We are transforming lives with affordable, innovative, intuitive and ethical software; tailor-made to fit around you
We do this by providing our clients with software services that will positively impact them, their customers, clients, service users, and employees.
More people are able to access these services because we make it affordable with a subscription service.
We are committed to raising awareness to show how lack of digital accessibility creates barriers for disabled people preventing them from having the same opportunities as everyone else.
Furthermore, we are passionate to show how digital accessibility can be advantageous for everyone.
We provide an inclusive workplace and provides equal opportunities for all our employees.
We embrace our teams unique qualities whatever their race, age, gender or ability and respect that everyone works in different ways and requires different tools to be able to achieve success
We are told to live life to the fullest but barriers are often in place stopping people achieving this.
Keith and Trish, husband and wife and co-founders of able to software are only able to go out and make happy memories because of accessible pathways and a walking aid.
This is what gave them the inspiration to create, able to software .
Our story
When Trish retired as a Mental health Nurse due to her disability she turned to a previous passion of graphic design and content editor working voluntarily for a local charity. When this came to an end she struggled to find suitable employment that would accommodate flexible working from home.
Keith, an experienced software developer who has worked in the software industry for over 30 years was commuting over 60 miles every day and often needed to take time off to provide support for his wife Trish.
Both had a passion for helping others and creating opportunities for other people to succeed so it made sense to go into business together, and in 2013 Buzy Bee Software services was born.
In recent years Trish’s health threw many challenges and it was only when out walking at their local beach to recharge the mental batteries they noticed how many people were saying, “Thank goodness for this ramp, without it I wouldn’t be able to get down to the beach”.
First it was a lady with a pushchair and young child, secondly it was an elderly couple. Trish realised she had just said the same thing and had added that she would be lost without her walking stick and Keith to link her.
Once home Trish realised that there were also many challenges when she was looking at websites and mobile apps. She was visually, cognitively and physically impaired and when these were inaccessible to her, she became more aware of her limitations and the barriers she came up against.
It was handy she was married to a digital wizard.
Together they started to look at how they could integrate digital accessibility tools and features into their software making it more accessible by more people. Combing their skills they came up with tailored software solutions that were fully accessible by all.
So in 2024 and a new name change, Able to Software have already transformed lives and can now provide even more opportunities for even more people.
"It takes each of us to make a difference for all of us."
- Jackie Mutcheson